On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:57:56 CDT, Bobby Mac said:
That said, unless Covad is constantly exhausting it's pool or they mandate that after the lease expires to give a different IP a reverse lookup would give you the hostname of the offender which should remain accurate for some amount of time. No action on Covads part constitutes legal action on yoru part...
OK. So you get hit by 129.257.34.98. You look up the PTR and get back 98.34.257.129.cable-pool-slash-12.covad.net. What did you gain here? You knew it was in a Covad /12 before, and that's all you know after, and Covad *still* isn't stopping their customer's bad behavior. After all, you didn't *really* care that the IP was assigned to a computer belonging to Herman Munster, 1313 Mockingbird Lane. What you actually *wanted* was for somebody (preferably Covad) to hand Herman a clue.